Just give me a moment.

Do you need time?

Why yes. I need a moment.

A little extra time.

I’ll be with you presently

But right now I need time.


I need some time to clear my head

To think what I should say.

I think I’ll really like this prompt

Once I get underway.


I’m prone to always rush things.

I need to take my time.

I ought to stop and think a bit.

Perhaps I’ll make it rhyme?


Good things are worth waiting for.

They come to you in time

But I will need a moment

To search for rhyming lines.


There’s so much that I could have done

If only I’d had time.

I put things off and now it seems

I’m running out of time.


Yes I think I do need time!

As much as I can get.

I’m prone to waste so much of it.

I dawdle and forget.


I’d like to understand it

The stuff that Einstein said

But all that relativity

Just sends me back to bed.


So I will put things off for now

I’ll do this when I’ve time.

I haven’t got much time just now.

I could have done with more.


I’ve let you down in that last verse

It sadly doesn’t rhyme.

It might have done. It could have done.

I just ran out of time.

Losing track of time?

Which activities make you lose track of time?

I wish I could say

I lose track of time

But truly

I do not.


It’s truer to say

That I’m obsessed

And my watch

Is seldom off.


I’m checking my watch

Most all the time

I have to pace

My day.


I’ll check my watch

If I wake in the night

How long have I left

To sleep?


I’ll wake up early

Be off and out

Time for the morning run.


Couldn’t run

Without a watch.

Have to have it on.


Constantly checking

Time and pace

How far have I run?


Back to the house

To shower and dress

Analyse my times.


Coffee and breakfast

That comes next

When do we need to be out?


Count down now

Till time for lunch

How long till we eat?


I wish I could say

I lose myself

But I never do

Find it hard to concentrate

Other stuff to do.


Time for dinner

Clearing up

Then maybe watch TV.


Don’t mind so much

Just what I watch

But what time will it end?


Counting down the time for bed

Must get eight hours sleep.

Off to bed my favourite place

And then we start again.